From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Cc: navid.emamdoost@gmail.com, dan.carpenter@gmail.com,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] Staging: fbtft: fix memory leak in fbtft_framebuffer_alloc" failed to apply to 4.14-stable tree
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2019 20:43:05 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191015004305.GF31224@sasha-vm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1571065171233128@kroah.com>
On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 04:59:31PM +0200, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
>
>The patch below does not apply to the 4.14-stable tree.
>If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
>tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
>id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.
>
>thanks,
>
>greg k-h
>
>------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
>
>From 5bdea6060618cfcf1459dca137e89aee038ac8b9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>From: Navid Emamdoost <navid.emamdoost@gmail.com>
>Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2019 22:09:45 -0500
>Subject: [PATCH] Staging: fbtft: fix memory leak in fbtft_framebuffer_alloc
>
>In fbtft_framebuffer_alloc the error handling path should take care of
>releasing frame buffer after it is allocated via framebuffer_alloc, too.
>Therefore, in two failure cases the goto destination is changed to
>address this issue.
>
>Fixes: c296d5f9957c ("staging: fbtft: core support")
>Signed-off-by: Navid Emamdoost <navid.emamdoost@gmail.com>
>Reviewed-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@gmail.com>
>Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
>Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190930030949.28615-1-navid.emamdoost@gmail.com
>Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Conflicts due to 333c7b940526b ("staging: fbtft: Fixes some alignment
issues - Style"). Fixed up and queued for 4.14-4.4.
--
Thanks,
Sasha
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2019-10-14 14:59 FAILED: patch "[PATCH] Staging: fbtft: fix memory leak in fbtft_framebuffer_alloc" failed to apply to 4.14-stable tree gregkh
2019-10-15 0:43 ` Sasha Levin [this message]
2019-10-15 6:08 ` Greg KH
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